On the Market: Walker Tower Penthouse Wants $55 M.; What Happens After All the Brooklyn Hospitals Close? Castles That Cost Less Than New York Apartments

Walker Tower penthouse attempts new downtown record, asking $55 million. [TRD]Sharing your historic apartment with ghosts of the past. [NYM]Even the trash cans are controversial in Crown Heights. [DNAinfo]As hospitals close, Brooklyn struggles with a lack of health care facilities. [WSJ]Bushwick church to get hideous condo tower plopped on top of it. [Brownstoner]Depressing: castles that cost less than mediocre New York City apartments. [Buzzfeed]Miles Davis medallion can’t be added to UWS building until violation is cleared. [DNAinfo]Brooklyn development sites flip after running up gains. [WSJ]Rockaway Beach attendance dropped by half the summer after Sandy. [DNAinfo]More and more of us are paying our rent to Wall Street. What does that mean? [AC]God’s Love We Deliver moves to Williamsburg while Soho building undergoes renovation. [Crain’s]Sweden is obsessed with Brooklyn hipsters, Brooklyn beer. [Atlantic Wire]Keri Russell moves into Brooklyn Heights rental while her brownstone gets revamped. [Post]Warehouse loft where John Lennon and Norman Mailer once partied sells for $13 M. [Curbed]Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Soros poised to win big on housing crisis bet. [Bloomberg]